"We women worked so hard" : gender, urbanization, and social reproduction in colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956

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"We women worked so hard" : gender, urbanization, and social reproduction in colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956

Teresa A. Barnes

(Social history of Africa)

Heinemann , James Currey, c1999

  • : Heinemann : hbk
  • : Heinemann : pbk
  • : James Currey : hbk
  • : James Currey : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [181]-195

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Volume

: James Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852556368

Description

This contribution to the social historiography of colonialism encourages a rethink of urban colonial history, and a questioning of social categorization in colonial Zimbabwe and throughout southern Africa. African ideas of gender in colonial Zimbabwe centrally shaped oppositional responses well before the advent of nationalism. Citing a wide collection of vibrant oral histories, the author argues that urban African men and women incolonial Harare constructed complex yet coherent indentities and durable hopes for themselves in broad moments of gendered conflict and consensus. North America: Heinemann

Table of Contents

  • Economics and society in colonial Harare
  • African women's work and economic differentiation before the 1950s
  • divisions in black and white male ranks
  • paradigms of righteousness
  • conflicts, complexities and complications in the 1950s.
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: James Currey : hbk ISBN 9780852556863

Description

African ideas of gender in colonial Zimbabwe centrally shaped oppositional responses well before the advent of nationalism. Citing a wide collection of vibrant oral histories, the author argues that urban African men and women incolonial Harare constructed complex yet coherent indentities and durable hopes for themselves in broad moments of gendered conflict and consensus. This contribution to the social histiography of colonialism encourages a rethink ofurban colonial history, and a questioning of social categorization in colonial Zimbabwe and throughout southern Africa.

Table of Contents

  • Economics and society in colonial Harare
  • African women's work and economic differentiation before the 1950s
  • divisions in black and white male ranks
  • paradigms of righteousness
  • conflicts, complexities and complications in the 1950s.

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